Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Finally,
for the first time in over 9 months I was able to return to the
Fairfield Community Center for a night of Professional Wrestling! The
last time I was there was in December 2014 for
MEW. I actually found myself getting very excited when I hit the exit
ramp knowing what was to come.

I met up with Roy at the Fairfield House of Pizza for some pie and great wrestling conversation.

We
were met at the show by Mikey and Phil was there. The show started 15
minutes late, which is not surprising. What was surprising was that the
rest of the show was well timed out with
a reasonable intermission.

Here’s the card:

The
Mutts defeated John “The Bomb” Bryar and Aiden Andrews after Andrews
was pinned. Sonny wasn’t there so Bomb started the match on his own
before Aiden ran in to become Bomb’s partner.
He proved to be useless as he was quickly pinned.

Primer
Inc defeated Big Moxie & JP O’Reilly with Roadblock with a reverse
DDT/double foot stomp on O’Reilly. Big Moxie was better than I thought
he would be. With time and continued training
he could be pretty good.

“Tower of Power” Mark Moment defeated Kenyon Mora. I thought this would be better but the two just didn’t click.

Twin
Cities & MEW Champion: Adam Ricker pinned Crash Landing w/ Beavis.
This match wasn’t bad at all, mostly because it was kept to just a few
minutes. Greenleaf did his best to screw it
up by botching clear 3 count saying Crash kicked out, when he hadn’t,
that or Crash forgot to kick out, either way it was botched. Ricker
hit the big ending for the win.

IWE
Champion: Alexander Lee defeated “Da Hey Man” Eric Johnson. I thought
for sure that Eric would win the belt back on his retirement tour for
one last run as champ and even retire as champion.

All and all not a bad show but my favorite part was spending time with my wrestling friends before, during, and after the show.

IWE comes back to Fairfield November 20th with Robbie E.

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Great
conversation with Double J talking a lot of his early days in Memphis
wrestling, they also talk a bit about Global Force Wrestling and his time in
WWF.I could have listened to them talk
for hours.

The boss
talks about breaking in in Mass at Chaotic Wrestling, getting into WWE and the
start of the Diva’s Revolution and how she wouldn’t settle for the 90’s T &
A wrestling.

Episode 173
Jado & Gedo

The bookers
of NJPW and former teammates of Jericho in “Team No Respect” give us some
insight in their experiences wrestling around the world.Their broken English is a bit difficult but
well worth the listen.

Episode 174
Prime Time Players

Great
conversation with this duo talking about the early versions of NXT, becoming a
team, breaking up for no reason, teaming up again, and Darren Young talks about
what it was like after coming out.

Steve Austin Unleashed

Episodes 246
& 248 Vampiro Part 1 & 2

Interesting
interview stretching over two episodes, at times I felt that Vampiro was being
upfront and truthful, other times I felt he was working us with the over the
top tales.

Episode 238
Johnny Mundo

Excellent
conversation about leaving WWE, making it on the indy’s, Lucha Underground,
getting into the movie business as an actor and stuntman.

How Did This Get Made

Episode 118
Furious 7 LIVE w/ Adam Scott

They just
love them some Fast & Furious, nothing more needs to be said.

Joe Rogan Experience

Episode 682
Mark & Chris Bell

The brothers
talk about powerlifting, drug abuse, their brother’s death, Chris’s movies
“Bigger, Stronger, Faster” and his new documentary “Prescription Thugs.”Very long, and very good conversation.

Episode 690
Ronda Rousey & Edmond Tarverdyan

This is essentially
a 2.5 hour shoot interview covering the entirety of Ronda’s fight career,
mistakes she’s made along the way, and where she sees the future.Her trainer Edmond chimes in his point of
view.

The Moth Radio Hour

Motherlove,
Money, & War

A gambler
with a destructive streak tells himself he can beat the odds one last time,
best-selling author Jamaica Kincaid is sent to live with her aunt after the
birth of her little brother, and award winning journalist and documentary
filmmaker Sebastian Junger spends years covering war.

Bill Yosses
& Christine Kalafus

A White
House executive pastry chef describes landing the job of a lifetime and an
amateur baker decides to try her hand at making cakes for a living.

Ophira
Eisenberg & Brian Babylon

Ophira Eisenberg
lands a coveted role in the school play and Brian Babylon runs a side business
at his summer job.

Oreos,
Heaven, and America’s Most Wanted

A mother
gets surprising news in the maternity ward, a man is addicted to cookies, an
elderly woman get a “ticket to heaven” and a musician helps the FBI capture one
of America’s Most Wanted.

The Nerdist

Live from
SDCC With Sir Ben Kingsley and Peter Capaldi

Amazing,
amazing, amazing!Ben Kinsley talks
about the movie that made him get into acting and more.Peter Capaldi talks about a band he was in
with Craig Ferguson, becoming The Doctor and more.

Saturday, September 5, 2015

I
haven’t posted in a couple weeks and rest assured I will be continuing
my two regular columns soon again with Random Wrestling and Podcast
Rundown. I just haven’t had to time to put much
of anything else out. Not that I’ve disappointed too many people.

There
is a lot of wrestling blogs and websites out there, most reporting on
current news and events so I tend to not cover those and instead I try
for complete original content and that can
be hard to come by. Besides this wrestling blog I have my other
personal blog and working on my short stories that I submit to various
places for publication. That and I am completely hooked on the Doctor
Who revival and have been watching it like crazy.

I
had written a blog about NXT Takeover Brooklyn but hadn’t posted it,
yet. I was going to do one on Summerslam but at this point I’m not
going to bother. Honestly Summerslam was ok, top
to bottom Takeover was a better card. Best matches on Summerslam were
Cena vs. Rollins with a stupid finish. Cesaro vs. Owens and Lesnar vs.
Taker. Lesnar vs. Taker was a really good match. The finish was done
in a great way with the screw job on Lesnar.

If
you haven’t watched the episode of NXT you need too. It was taped in
Brooklyn prior to the live Takeover broadcast. The ovation that Enzo
Amore and Big Cas get is amazing and you can
tell that both of them are taken back by it.

I’m
looking forward to Seth Rollins vs. Sting at Night of Champions in a
couple weeks. I’m hoping the match is better than Sting’s match with
Triple H at Mania. If Sting wins the WWE World
Heavyweight Championship he will arguably the most decorated wrestling
championing. He will be the only man to hold the NWA, WCW, TNA, &
WWE World Heavyweight Championships. The only other wrestler that could
accomplish this same feet would be Ric Flair
is he wins the TNA World Championship, and that is unlikely. Now if
you count the current version of the NWA World Championship then the Big
Show could if he won the NWA & TNA.

I don’t have any wrestling shows I’ll be attending coming up, which is sad. Limitless Wrestling has a show on September 12th that I would love to go to, but that’s not going to
happen. IWE is in Fairfield on September 18th, and I’m going to try to hit that one. So I guess I don’t have any really good wrestling shows coming up.

So keep reading as I am to fill these pages with unique and....my cat just jumped in the air and caught a moth, it was quite amazing to see...fun wrestling related posts.

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